re: 767 cargo plane crash outside Houston

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Lauda was operating a BMK-VIE 763 back in the early nineties that had an uncommanded RT deploy on the climb out of Bangkok.

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I was just reading about that crash today, incidentally. I’m reading Joe Sutter’s book about designing the 747 right now (one of the best books I have ever read!) and went down the rabbit hole googling turbofan engines to understand how they work. Somehow landed on reverse thrust YouTube videos and then ended up looking up the Lauda Flight 004 crash. FWIW, according to the Wikipedia page, “In early August 1991, Boeing issued an alert to airlines stating that over 1,600 late model 737s, 747s, 757s, and 767s had thrust reverser systems similar to that of OE-LAV. Two months later, customers were asked to replace potentially faulty valves in the thrust reverser systems that could cause reversers to deploy in flight.” (Which I’m sure they did)

Additionally, in the video I was watching, the pilot was explaining that (at least on the 737), now reverse thrusters can only be enabled when either the landing gear detects a compression from landing or when at or below 10 feet according to the altimeter. So I would think something like the reverse thrust engaging in flight causing the crash would be a highly unlikely scenario for this 767.